Word: meaninglessness
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...treaty between the two countries that prohibited all explosions in the atmosphere, in space and under the seas. Since underground tests below 4.5 or 5 on the Richter Scale cannot be detected by the other side, the agreement bans only tests of relatively big devices, making it almost meaningless as a restraining force in the arms race, in the view of most experts...
...Unfortunately, employers cannot absorb outsized wage increases through higher productivity. Output per man-hour of the nonfarm work force actually dropped at an annual rate of 3.5% in the first quarter. Thus a wage explosion will only force more of the price increases that have made past pay rises meaningless...
...yellow and smooth and dangerous?" yips the clever infant, zapping his father with another riddle. "Quin's Shanghai Circus," answers the weary book reviewer. "Stop being silly," the child admonishes. "What's yellow and smooth and dangerous?" "Ah, dangerous," says his distracted parent, "I thought you said meaningless...
...capita charge, with possible expansion later to include other New England states. Curran's critics--exprisoners' groups, the American Friends Service Committee and Massachusetts assistant commissioner for drug rehabilitiation Matthew Dumont--charged that his definition of "special offender"--"incorrigible," "disruptive," "dangerous"--was so vague it was meaningless--or suitable for clamping down on politically active prisoners...
...Joel Polinsky. She is bound, gagged, and strapped to a swivel chair. Her assailant proceeds to strip her while narrating the story of his life. Ultimately, he persuades her to stay with him of her own will. In Sweet Eros, the hero offers us a vision of life so meaningless, that judging the moral reprehensibility of his actions is impossible. His girlfriend committed suicide, his mother died of cancer; life to him has become an absurd game which he likens to the scurrying of ants across the floor. The kidnapping is an act of desperation: in order to insure...